Johnny O'Reilly

One year into his three-week “special operation”, Vladimir Putin finds himself invoking the heroic wars of Russia’s past to prepare the Russian people for a long war.

Kharkiv is 40km from the border with Russia. Johnny O'Reilly reports from Ukraine's second largest city which is on the frontline in a war that hasn't become any less brutal.

In March, Russian jets bombed a residential block in the town of Borodyanka 40km northwest of Kyiv. Two of them collapsed and the survivors have yet to discover what lies beneath as Johnny O'Reilly reports.

In the village of Ozera, 10km from Bucha, where war crimes have been committed, Johnny O'Reilly finds a population that has witnessed horror.

Johnny O'Reilly reports from Kyiv and from Irpin, the town just outside Ukraine's capital which was the scene of some of the most harrowing images from the war as Ukrainians consider what comes next.

Johnny O'Reilly reports from Odessa on the increasing desperation of Vladimir Putin as the Russian propaganda campaign continues on all fronts.

In the city of Odessa, citizens wait for a Russian bombardment, but one of the many consequences of the war has been an embrace of Ukrainian identity and a rejection of the concepts advanced by Putin.

While peace talks begin on the Belarus-Ukraine border, many people here in Kyiv feel there is now no option but to prepare to fight and stay on high alert for the Russian saboteurs already on the city's streets.